WHY MAN EATS MAN.
iI!?PIONARr*S STOET. Mr. Da-a Crawford, the African pioneer mis.-:orj:Lry, describing bis experiences among Central Afriram natives to a London nudience. said the cannibals believed that if (hey ate mz.u they were doabiy timti and they ate man becanse they said man alone ■KOS (.-areful or what he ate. No carmibai ir<"iiid ever eat a domestic fowl. The wild csanibal was a tremendous believer in the immortantj- of the souL -They brat Locdon."' declared Mr. Crawford, '"this precious hoity-toity London of yours. Ton £::>- so-and-so has 'departed"; the native* aiwavs say 'he has arrived. - Of David Liviassione they nerer said 'He is dead,' be i "He sleepeth." "In Africa every man is his own Words-■x-orrh. If you take a 'header' and live twenty or thirty ypors in the wild, yon can poetry, and yon do not know you are a polynia! poet." Mr. Cra-sTford wooed up with an amazing yarn of uo-w he was called in by a village to shoot a lion that had jost kilied a pr!n----cr-HB and half of her. With the remalnlrrg naif of the lady tte missionary bai:ed a trap for !>.- lion and ba 3 ged htnL
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 127, 29 May 1913, Page 8
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